"We're trying to turn the page and he's climbing out of the grave to haunt us."

[babylonsister]

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1897850,00.html


Dick Cheney: Why So Chatty All of a Sudden?
By Michael Duffy / WASHINGTON Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

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What's quite clear about Cheney's sudden chatty spree is that Cheney wants to refocus the question about waterboarding and other interrogation techniques from whether they were legal to whether they worked. After eight years on the front lines of the war on terror, perhaps that is all a man can see. It certainly might explain why Cheney's making such a fuss about asking Obama to release a pair of after-action memos — memos he says offer proof that the controversial methods produced evidence that, as Cheney claimed on Sunday, "saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives."

A far darker explanation for the spring offensive isn't about the past but the future. Obama officials spied something like a set up in Cheney's latest gambit. One of the Bush' teams biggest talking points in its final days in office was an insistence that its greatest accomplishment was preventing a second attack in the years after Sept. 11. By laying down the charge now that Obama has made the country less safe, the Bush team may be able to point fingers of blame if a second attack ever comes.

Cheney has never had great political instincts, but it's also possible that with the Republican party scattered and adrift, he sees little to lose and perhaps something to gain from stating his case now. Cheney briefly ran for president in 1996, and though he is unlikely to make that mistake again, he may see a chance to boost his dismal approval ratings at least within the battered ranks of the GOP. The argument against this is that it is difficult to believe even the former vice president thinks a personal campaign for waterboarding is a good political move.

In any case, Cheney's reappearance delights Democrats — "Bring it on!" quipped a White House official Tuesday afternoon when asked about Cheney's re-emergence — and dismayed Republicans. Said one: "We're trying to turn the page and he's climbing out of the grave to haunt us."

[bdamomma]

1. cheney needs to be arrested, and so does bush.

[Demeter]

2. Cheney's Delusions Are Now Public Record

No staffer is hiding him in an undisclosed location, playing off his paranoia.
So with free rein, Cheney may well end up putting himself in the orange jumpsuit (if we get rid of Pelosi and Reid and Luck gives us a good honest judge.)

[Solly Mack]

3. Wonder why Chatty Cheney is being so chatty?

To repeatedly admit to your crimes, over and over again, all over the networks? You either feel untouchable or...well, you're hoping to keep eyes trained on you for a reason. So what is it?


Maybe it is to lay future blame in the even of another attack - but how sick is it that an admitted war criminal is even given the credibility to do so?

It's like being stuck in a really bad movie.

[MicaelS]

4. Maybe it's his final hurrah, so to speak.

The last burst of energy before he finally kicks the bucket. Maybe he feels the cold, dark hand of mortality clutching at his black heart.

[MADem]

6. I do think that he believes that if HE doesn't do it, no one else will.

Wouldn't surprise me, either, if his mean old wife was making him do this. I've seen her boss him around before!

[glitch]

5. It feels scripted to me.

I think we should stop letting them "create reality" for us.

[Solly Mack]

7. Me too

and part of it is the creation of a reality